Death Quotes

Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.

Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty dollars.

What do you want?’'I want to play, ’ he said.I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’m involved in, but you want a piece of it.’'Following you around lets me kill a lot of people.

As the greatest of detectives makes the greatest of criminals, a specialist in investigation is also a specialist in murder.

I am going to be murdered.It wasn’t any easier to face in the daytime.

It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.

Death doesn’t have to be the end of it. Our love for her is stronger than the grave.

War is organized murder and nothing else

You will take his life but you can't take his memory out of us.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton.

Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.

In his imagination, he grabbed his dad by the throat and squeezed until an old mans face turned purple. No pleading, no begging, simply... nothing.

That's a demon for you. Wants me dead but wants to be sure that he is the one who does me in.

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.("New York Blues")

(A murderer about their victim:)"He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.

Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie, ” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way, ” Nathan said.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.

He would do anything to avoid ageing and death...anything.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.

Everyone dies young.

A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.

Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.

Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight.

Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.

For appearances. Now there's a lovely thing to die for.

Whatever you are, do not even assume that you will be surrounded and gnawed by luxurious worms of an exquisite breed.

Because seeing someone’s heart ripped out, presumably for the first time, is something a person should accept naturally, like finding out there’s no Santa Clause.

If you are reading this, I'm dead. Don't celebrate too much. Jesus is watching.

I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral.

We waddled through life blindly, hoping to find something—and someone—worth fighting for.

For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Death follows stagnation

It's not enough to know pain

Ignorance is not bliss

Priorities are simple to establish

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.

You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you."Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.

It wilna end wi' me, Campbell. Slay me, and you'll face my brothers and after them my Muhheconneok kin. You cannae possibly kill us all.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.